FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you; <br /> Seem to fly it, it will pursue: <br />So court a mistress, she denies you; <br /> Let her alone, she will court you. <br /> Say, are not women truly, then, <br /> Styled but the shadows of us men? <br /> <br />At morn and even, shades are longest; <br /> At noon they are or short or none: <br />So men at weakest, they are strongest, <br /> But grant us perfect, they're not known. <br /> Say, are not women truly, then, <br /> Styled but the shadows of us men?<br /><br />Benjamin Jonson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-shadow-2/
